Cream-separator.



UNITED STATES PatentedSeptember 22, 1903.

SAMUEL A. JONES, OF DESHLER, OHIO.

CREAM7SEPARATOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 739,423, dated September 22, 1903. Application filed December so, 1902. 'seninl No. 137.140. (No nan.)

T at whom it may concern: 4

' Be'it known that I, SAMUEL A. JONES, a citizen of the United States,.residing at Deshler,

in the'county of Henry and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improve-' ments in Cream-Separators, of which the'following is a specification.

My invention relates to cream-separators employing two cans, the outer one to contain water or ice, the inner one the milk to be treated; and the object of my invention is to with the inlet to the spigot, the said plates bein g attached together by means of bolts having protruding pinsor projections that when the bolts are twisted in either direction ride upward on the curved surface of the inner side of the plate secured to the milk-can and graduallypress the two plates together. A gasket is provided between the two plates around the edge of the plates and another around the opening opposite the spigot to prevent the water in the outer canmixing with the milk.

The advantages of my invention willfully Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the watercan [is indicated by the numeral 1, and the milk-can by 2.

3 represents a plate made, preferably, of metal soldered orotherwise secured in an opening 4 in said can, while 5 represents a spigot soldered in the lower end of said plate. 6 represents a plate corresponding in shape with plate 3, soldered or otherwise secured in an opening 7 in the milk-can 2. The plate 6 isprovided with a' glass-covered opening 8,"

to be used as a sight-glass in operating the device, said glass being secured in said opening by any suitable water tight means. The

plate 6 is provided ,with a flange 9, which fits into a corresponding depression 10in the P @.3.-. a. I

11 is a hole in plate 6 opposite the spigot 5, and 12 an opening in plate 3 opposite the sightglass 8. At the extreme ends of the plate 3 are provided holes 13, and holes 14 are provided in plate 6 to register therewith when the cans are to be attachedtogether, 15 rep -v resenting thumb-bolts to be inserted in saidholes 13 and 1 4,said bolts having lugs 15 thereon, which when the bolt is inserted through the said holes 13 and14n-ride on thelinnercurved surface of the plate 6, which acts as a cam-surface to draw the plates together. Ifdesired, the incline may be accented by The latter contached to rectangular or fiat-sided cans hav ing a fiat'inner surface, as shown in Fig. 6. If preferred, the lugs 15 may be formed by a cotter-pin 18, inserted through hole 19 in the end of the bolt 15. This construction is clearly shown in Fig. 8. sage of the lugs 15 or cotter-pin 18 through the holes-13 and 14, I provide offset grooves 13 and 14; in said holes vertically arranged.

19 represents a gasket around the flange 9, 20 a gasket around the spigot-hole 11, and 21 gaskets around bolts 15 to prevent inter mingling of the water and milk or the escape of the water from the water-can.

By this construction it will be'readily seen that the tanks 1 and 2 may be fastened to- To permit the pasgether'and'deta ched from one another without disturbing the spigot used 'fordrawing off the ,milk, which being attached to the water-tank may be cleansed with the ,water contained in the tank after the'milk-tank has water-tank, a hole in the plate on the milktank to register with the inlet of the spigot aforesaid, and means to secure said plates together, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a creaming-can, a tank for holding the water, a plate secured to said tank, a spigot secured to said plate, a tank for holding the milk to seat inside the water-tank, a plate secured to said milk-tank having a hole to register with the inlet to the spigot, and holes to insert through said plates to hold them together, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a creaming-can, a tank for holding water, a plate secured to said tank having a depression therein, a spigot secured to said plate, a tank for holding the milk to seat inside the water-tank, a plate secured to said milk-tank having a hole to register with the inlet to the spigot, a flange on the milk-tank plate to seat in the depression in the plate on the water-tank, both of said plates having registering holes therein with oppositely-disposed grooves, thumb-bolts to insert through said holes, and lugs on said bolts to be turned on the sides of said holes, substantially as shown and described.

said flange, and an opening in the water-tank:

plate opposite said sight-glass, both of said plates having registering holes therein with oppositely-disposed grooves, thumb-bolts to insert through said holes, lugs on said thumbbolts that bear against the inner side of the milk-tank plate when turned and tighten the plates together, and gaskets around the flange on the milk-tank plate, the spigot-inlet, and the thumb-bolts, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL A. JONES. \Vitnesscs:

MAE M. Ross, S. COTTINGHAM. 

